“Consumers want to buy the products they love, but they don’t want to buy products that are directly responsible for climate change. Our palm oil solution will enable consumers to continue buying the products they want while also making a planet-positive impact.”

More than 250 companies and nine countries around the world have publicly pledged to stop using palm oil that has not been certified sustainable in their supply chains.

Separately, a bacterium has been discovered that feeds on plastic, leading to hopes it could be used in the recycling process.

Scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, found the bacterium at a waste site feeding on polyurethane.

Researchers said work remains to be done before it can be used to treat large amounts of waste plastic and it could be 10 years before it is used on a large scale.